‘A self-portrait in songs’: Paul McCartney looks back on his lyrics | Malay Mail

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LONDON, Nov 6 — From looking for inspiration on the bus to finding titles in dreams, Paul McCartney looks back on his life in a new book recounting how he wrote some of the world’s most famous songs. Described as “a self-portrait in 154 songs”, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present spans...

LONDON, Nov 6 — From looking for inspiration on the bus to finding titles in dreams, Paul McCartney looks back on his life in a new book recounting how he wrote some of the world’s most famous songs.spans McCartney’s eight decades of song-writing — as a teenager, a member of the Beatles, his time with rock band Wings and as a successful solo artist.

Both late Beatle John Lennon, with whom MCartney wrote songs, and his first wife Linda McCartney, who died in 1998, feature heavily in the book. “We grew up together. It was like walking up a staircase and we both went side by side ... It is great to just realise how much I loved this man.”I Lost My Little GirlYears later, it was dream of her comforting him that inspired the title for“She was just sort of saintly ... just saying to me ‘it’s going to be ok, just let it be’,” he said.

The book recalls his hometown Liverpool and inspiring family members. Edited by poet Paul Muldoon, it is also filled with pictures, handwritten drafts and letters.

 

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